State officials have announced additional funding will be provided to Indiana Adult Protective Services (APS), the system responsible for protecting Indiana's most vulnerable adults. Earlier this year, an investigation found that APS is underfunded and that existing funding mechanisms do not allow for sufficient staffing to handle the roughly 40,000 calls it receives each year. On Thursday, Senator Luke Kenley announced that the state will allocate about $1.1 million to APS to allow for the hiring of 18 new full-time investigators. Currently, the equivalent of 30 full-time investigators manage cases for the entire state.

​INARF applauds the state for taking this preliminary step to address the issues currently facing APS and encourages the state to continue to identify additional opportunities to enhance the services and protections provided to vulnerable adults by APS.